Team Bio

VIEW's work in Nepal involves several important collaborators that will be participating in this project. Organizational partners include the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) and the Nepal Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC). Our VIEW Veterinary Fellow, Dr. Amir Sadaula, is stationed at the NTNC Biodiversity Conservation Center in Chitwan and he works closely with Dr. Kamal Gairhe, the wildlife veterinarian for the DNPWC.

Gretchen E. Kaufman

As a wildlife veterinarian and One Health educator, I have devoted my career to conservation medicine, hoping to improve the lives and the futures of our most endangered animals. In 2012 I co-founded the non-profit organization VIEW (Veterinary Initiative for Endangered Wildlife) with Dr Deborah McCauley, dedicated to building wildlife health capacity in countries that need it the most. I have also held a number of academic positions including the Assistant Director for Global Health Education and Training at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University ; and the Director of the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine at Tufts University. At Tufts, I developed the unique interdisciplinary Masters Program in Conservation Medicine.

For the last 15 years I have conducted international veterinary medical research and capacity building projects working with university, governmental and non-governmental wildlife conservation organizations globally. In Nepal, I helped the national veterinary school create a wildlife and conservation medicine masters course and mentored many American and Nepalese veterinary students in public health and wildlife research projects. I also worked with Elephant Care International to establish a government endorsed Nepal Elephant Healthcare and TB Surveillance Program.

My mission is to promote inclusion of wildlife health in endangered species conservation efforts and the need to seek sustainable solutions to global health challenges facing the world today. I strongly defend the protection of biodiversity as a fundamental key to the health of the planet and all life that benefits from it and continue to pursue and support the practice of conservation medicine.

Deborah McCauley

I am a wildlife veterinarian and have been involved with wildlife disease surveillance, wildlife capture and immobilization, field surgery, field research, disease prevention and response. I co-founded VIEW (Veterinary Initiative for Endangered Wildlife), with Dr. Gretchen Kaufman, in response to the growing threat of disease transmitted by domestic animals and humans to endangered wildlife.

I have worked as a contract wildlife veterinarian and have participated in wildlife field capture in North America, Africa and Asia. In Nepal I have been working in collaboration with the country Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, and the National Trust for Nature Conservation helping to develop a disease surveillance and wildlife health program with the emphasis on saving endangered wildlife and training local wildlife professionals. I have also worked with wildlife organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Wolverine Program, Montana’s Fish Wildlife and Parks and ZooMontana.